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  • THE TONGUE SET FREE
    THE TONGUE SET FREE
    ELIAS CANETTI
    BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: LITERARY. The Tongue Set Free is so beautifully written. It begins wtih an extraordinary image, Canetti's earliest memory. He comes out of a room. A man makes him stick out his tongue; if he talks he will cut it off. Years later Canetti realises that this was his nursemaid's lover, frightening him into silence about their rendezvous. The idea of speak...
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  • IN PRAISE OF SHADOWS
    IN PRAISE OF SHADOWS
    JUN'ICHIRO TANIZAKI
    This Is An Essay On Aesthetics By One Of The Greatest Japanese Novelists. The Text Ranges Over Architecture, Jade, Food, Toilets, And Combines An Acute Sense Of The Use Of Space In Buildings, As Well As Perfect Descriptions Of Lacquerware Under Candlelight And Women In The Darkness Of The House Of Pleasure. The Essay Forms A Classic Description Of The Collision Between The Shad...
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  • A CIVIL CONTRACT
    A CIVIL CONTRACT
    GEORGETTE HEYER
    If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! 'The greatest writer who ever lived' ANTONIA FRASER'[My] generation's Julia Quinn' ADJOA ANDOH, star of Bridgerton'One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' JOANNE HARRIS_____________ Adam Deveril returns from the Peninsula War a hero, only to fi...
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    12,50 €

  • THE ARMOUR OF LIGHT
    THE ARMOUR OF LIGHT
    KEN FOLLETT
    The grand master of gripping fiction is back. International No.1 bestseller Ken Follett returns to Kingsbridge with an epic tale of revolution and a cast of unforgettable characters.Revolution is in the air1792. A tyrannical government is determined to make England a mighty commercial empire. In France, Napoleon Bonaparte begins his rise to power, and with dissent rife, France'...
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  • THE DRAGONS KEEPER
    THE DRAGONS KEEPER
    M. L. BURNS
    Azahara was no stranger to pain.In the aftermath of the cataclysmic Battle of Sunfall, Azahara's world crumbles, leaving her with nothing but time on her side. She sets forth on a journey to the Isle of Ilkiz. Once home to the mighty Ilkiz herself and the Power of Dragons, the Isle becomes her sought after refuge and the crucible for her fate, where every step forward teeters o...
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  • DORK DIARIES: SKATING SENSATION
    DORK DIARIES: SKATING SENSATION
    RACHEL RENÉE RUSSELL
    Welcome to Nikki Maxwell's aDORKable world and the mega-selling Dork Diaries series - now with over 50 million copies in print worldwide! Nikki finds out that her crush Brandon volunteers at a local animal shelter. He's such a sweet guy - of course he wants to help those adorable puppies! Then Brandon tells her that the shelter is in danger of closing, and Nikki knows she...
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  • GIRLS AGAINST GOD
    GIRLS AGAINST GOD
    JENNY HVAL
    A genre-warping, time-travelling horror novel-slash-feminist manifesto for fans of Clarice Lispector and Jeanette Winterson.Welcome to 1990s Norway. White picket fences run in neat rows and Christian conservatism runs deep. But as the Artist considers her work, things start stirring themselves up. In a corner of Oslo a coven of witches begin cooking up some curses. A time-trave...
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    14,99 €

  • MACBETH
    MACBETH
    WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
    The authoritative edition of Macbeth from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.In 1603, James VI of Scotland ascended the English throne, becoming James I of England. London was alive with an interest in all things Scottish, and Shakespeare turned to Scottish history for material. He found a spectacle of...
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    8,75 €

  • EVERY DAY I READ
    EVERY DAY I READ
    HWANG BO-REUM
    From the internationally bestselling author of Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop comes a warm and reflective collection of essays about reading, language and life. Why do we read? What is it that we hope to take away from the intimate, personal experience of reading for pleasure? Rarely do we ask these profound, expansive questions of ourselves and of our relationship to th...
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    18,75 €

  • WILD SWANS
    WILD SWANS
    JUNG CHANG
    One of the best-selling and best-loved books of recent years, 'Wild Swans' is an epic true story of how one family lived and survived through some of China's most unsettling and violent times. The publication of 'Wild Swans' in 1991 was a worldwide phenomenon. Not only did it become the best-selling non-fiction book in British publishing history, with sales of well over two mil...
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    16,25 €

  • THE HAPPINESS TRAP 2ND EDITION
    THE HAPPINESS TRAP 2ND EDITION
    RUSS HARRIS
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    16,49 €

  • A HEART SO WHITE
    A HEART SO WHITE
    JAVIER MARÍAS
    "In the middle of a family lunch, Teresa, just married, goes to the bathroom, unbuttons her blouse and shoots herself in the heart. What made her kill herself immediately after her honeymoon? Years later, this mystery fascinates the young newlywed, Juan, whose father was married to Teresa before he married Juan's mother. As Juan moves closer to the truth, he begins to question ...
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  • CLOWN TOWN: THE NEW THRILLER IN THE BESTSELLING SERIES THAT INSPIRED THE HIT SHOW SLOW HORSES (SLOUGH HOUSE THRILLER 9)
    CLOWN TOWN: THE NEW THRILLER IN THE BESTSELLING SERIES THAT INSPIRED THE HIT SHOW SLOW HORSES (SLOUGH HOUSE THRILLER 9)
    MICK HERRON
    Slow horse River Cartwright is waiting to be passed fit for work. With time to kill, and with his grandfather a legendary former spy long dead, River investigates the secrets of the old man's library, and a mysteriously missing book. Regent's Park's First Desk, Diana Taverner, doesn't appreciate threats. So when those involved in a covert operation during the height of the Trou...
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    21,25 €

  • PERSEPOLIS 2
    PERSEPOLIS 2
    MARJANE SATRAPI
    Here is the fascinating and equally unforgettable sequel to Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi's memoir-in-comic strips of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Persepolis ended on a cliffhanger in 1984, just as fourteen-year-old Marjane was leaving behind her home in Tehran, escaping fundamentalism and the war with Iraq to begin a new life in the West. Here we follow our...
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  • AN ANTHROPOLOGIST ON MARS
    AN ANTHROPOLOGIST ON MARS
    OLIVER SACKS
    This collection of essays are mainly casebook studies. Neurological patients, Oliver Sacks once wrote, are travellers to unimaginable lands. This book offers portraits of seven such travellers, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating. ...
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  • THE SHEPHERD'S CROWN
    THE SHEPHERD'S CROWN
    TERRY PRATCHETT
    A SHIVERING OF WORLDSDeep in the Chalk, something is stirring. The owls and the foxes can sense it, and Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots. An old enemy is gathering strength.This is a time of endings and beginnings, old friends and new, a blurring of edges and a shifting of power. Now Tiffany stands between the light and the dark, the good and the bad. As the fairy horde pre...
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    9,99 €

  • NO LIMITS
    NO LIMITS
    MICHAEL PHELPS / ALAN ABRAHAMSON
    Beijing Games - a living Olympic legend. With an unprecedented eight gold medals and seven world-record times, his performance at the 2008 Games set a new standard for success. He ranks among the most elite athletes in the world, and is both an inspiration and a role model to millions. In No Limits, Phelps reveals the secrets to his remarkable success, from his training regimen...
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  • CITY OF BONES
    CITY OF BONES
    CASSANDRA CLARE
    YA. FANTASY & MAGICAL REALISM. Clary Fray is seeing things: vampires in Brooklyn and werewolves in Manhattan. Irresistibly drawn towards a group of sexy demon hunters, Clary encounters the dark side of New York City - and the dangers of forbidden love. Gift set contains paperback B-format editions of City of Bones, City of Ashes and City of Glass.The Mortal Instruments: City of...
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    12,50 €

  • SYLVESTER
    SYLVESTER
    GEORGETTE HEYER
    If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! 'The greatest writer who ever lived' ANTONIA FRASER 'A rollicking good read that will be of particular joy to Bridgerton viewers ... the permanent glister of scandal [...] ties the whole thing together' INDEPENDENT 'My generation's Julia Quinn' ADJOA ANDOH, star of Bridgerton _______________Endowed with rank, wealth and elega...
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  • THREE SHATTERED SOULS
    THREE SHATTERED SOULS
    MAI CORLAND
    The unmissable conclusion to the Sunday Times bestselling Broken Blades trilogy ...
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  • THE STORYTELLER
    THE STORYTELLER
    DAVE GROHL
    THE SUNDAY TIMES NO 1 BESTSELLER * ONE OF NME's BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF 2021 * ONE OF VARIETY'S BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF 2021 * INCLUDED IN AUDIBLE'S BEST OF THE YEAR LIST So, I've written a book. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities ('It's a piece of cake! Just do four hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your...
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  • THEY BOTH DIE AT THE END
    THEY BOTH DIE AT THE END
    ADAM SILVERA
    A love story with a difference - an unforgettable tale of life, loss and making each day count in the INTERNATIONAL NO. 1 BESTSELLING book of TIKTOK fame, clocking up 80 million views and counting! The First to Die at the End, the prequel to They Both Die at the End, is now available to pre-order in hardback, coming October 2022. On September 5th, a little after midnight, Deat...
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    11,25 €

  • DRUNK ON LOVE
    DRUNK ON LOVE
    JASMINE GUILLORY
    An intoxicating and sparkling new romance by New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory. Margot Noble needs some relief from the stress of running the family winery with her brother. Enter Luke: sexy, charming, and best of all in the too-small world of Napa, a stranger. The chemistry between them is undeniable, and Margot is delighted that she lucked into the perfect on...
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  • THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT
    THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT
    MAGGIE O'FARRELL
    Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023 A Reese's Bookclub December Pick (2022) An Instant Sunday Times, New York Times and Irish Times Bestseller (August 2022) A Guardian and LitHub Book of the Year (December 2022) 'Every bit as evocative and spellbinding as Hamnet. O'Farrell, thank God, just seems to be getting better and better' i newspaper 'Her narrative enchant...
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  • WICKED
    WICKED
    GREGORY MAGUIRE
    Film tie in edition of the global bestseller that inspired the hit musical phenomenon.[Bokinfo]. ...
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  • THE METAPHYSICS
    THE METAPHYSICS
    ARISTOTLE
    Aristotle's probing inquiry into some of the fundamental problems of philosophy, The Metaphysics is one of the classical Greek foundation-stones of western thought The Metaphysics presents Aristotle's mature rejection of both the Platonic theory that what we perceive is just a pale reflection of reality and the hard-headed view that all processes are ultimately material. He arg...
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  • THERE IS NO DEVIL
    THERE IS NO DEVIL
    SOPHIE LARK
    Just because he couldn't kill her doesn't mean his enemy won't. Cole and Mara's relationship has grown to consume them both. Cole, sculptor and killer, finds himself adrift in a depth of feeling he's never known, while Mara, unafraid of his darkness, is blossoming into a successful artist, shaking off the trauma of her youth to finally chase success. For the first time in bot...
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  • HAND TO MOUTH
    HAND TO MOUTH
    PAUL AUSTER
    Hand to Mouth is Paul Auster's startling memoir of his career as a young writer - and his accompanying struggle with poverty. ...
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  • THE COMPLETE NOVELS OF JANE AUSTEN
    THE COMPLETE NOVELS OF JANE AUSTEN
    JANE AUSTEN
    Jane Austen's masterworks in a single beautiful Penguin English Library volume Few novelists have observed their society with the wit and insight of Jane Austen. This volume brings together her seven great novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion and Lady Susan. Ironic, comic and wise, these stories of irrepressible ...
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    18,75 €

  • BERSERK DELUXE VOLUME 5
    BERSERK DELUXE VOLUME 5
    KENTARO MIURA
    Kentaro Miura's epic adult fantasy/horror series is an international sensation and is now featured in 7x10 deluxe hardcover editions!Griffith, the mutilated leader of the Band of the Hawk mercenaries, offers up his command to the demon lords of the Godhand in exchange for a rebirth into beauty--and terrible power. But the Hawks' berserker champion, Guts, will take on perdition ...
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